New World Order: China and Russia

Daria Mattingly is a lecturer in European History at the University of Chichester and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she received her doctorate and is an affiliated lecturer. Dr Mattingly’s teaching covers Soviet History, Russian and Chinese contemporary history. Daria frequently contributes to international media, including CNN, L’Express, Ukraina Moderna, and Ukrainska Pravda. She is the author of four book chapters and several articles, one of which received the ASN doctoral paper prize in 2015. Daria is finishing her book, titled Stalin’s Activists, on rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor.

Ben Bland is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, the international think-tank in London. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed books on Asian politics: Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia (Penguin Random House, 2020) and Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China’s Shadow (Penguin Random House, 2017). Ben previously worked for the Lowy Institute, an Australian think-tank, and as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times in China, Indonesia and Vietnam. He studied Asian history and politics at the University of Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

John Russell is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Security Studies at the University of Bradford. Graduated from the universities of Surrey (BSc) and Birmingham (PhD), he was twice exchange student at Moscow State University. He worked as simultaneous interpreter for NBC News throughout the Gorbachev era and specialised in all aspects of Soviet and post-Soviet society, East-West relations and International Terrorism. He taught at the University of Maryland (Europe) for 25 years and the University of Bradford for 23, and published the monograph Chechnya – Russia’s “War on Terror”, numerous chapters in collected works, journal articles, and reviews and has given lectures and interviews locally, nationally and internationally.

Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and an Honorary Fellow of the UK Defence Academy. He is a biologist by original training, lecturing at Imperial College and also working in tropical crop research in East Africa. From later lecturing in environmental science, he moved to Bradford in 1979 and has worked primarily on the changing causes of international conflict, especially in relation to political violence. A fourth edition of his book, Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, was published by Pluto Press last July.